Gabrielle Rifkind

Gabrielle Rifkind is a British mediator who has specialised in international conflict resolution working through non-governmental organisations, (NGOs) in the Middle East and United Kingdom. She is known as a commentator on international peacemaking and related themes and author of several titles.

Gabrielle Rifkind
Gabrielle Rifkind
Born1953
NationalityBritish
Alma materManchester University
Edinburgh University
London University
Occupationmediator, group analyst
Known forcollaboration, conflict resolution, art therapy, groupwork

Early life

Rifkind is a graduate of Manchester University and Edinburgh University. After working for the Probation Service, she joined the Institute of Group Analysis and became a group analyst.[1][2]

Later career

Rifkind joined the Oxford Research Group in the late 1990s to explore peace-making in the Palestine-Israel conflict.[3] She became head of the Israel/Palestine programme. She next turned her attention to Iran, before intervening on Northern Ireland.

In 2017 she founded Oxford Process, a Community interest company which works in conflict situations to build relationships with conflicted parties to identify opportunities to reduce tensions or prevent further escalation of violence.[4]

Rifkind has frequently appeared on broadcast media in the UK has given public lectures on peace-making and contributed to a colloquium at Princeton University.[5][6] She has been one of the conflict mediators for four series of BBC Radio 4's “Across the Red Line” presented by British political journalist, Anne McElvoy.[7]

She is the co-author, with peace activist Scilla Elworthy of Making Terrorism History (2005)[8] and, with former senior UN diplomat Giandomenico Picco, of The Fog of Peace: The Human Face of Conflict Resolution,[9] and author of, The Psychology of Political Extremism: What would Sigmund Freud have thought about Islamic State,[10]

Publications

Books
  • Co-author with Tessa Dalley and Kim Terry. Three Voices of Art Therapy: Image, Client, Therapist. United Kingdom: Routledge, 1993 and 2014. ISBN 9780415077965
  • Co-author with Scilla Elworthy. Hearts and Minds: Human Security Approaches to Political Violence. United Kingdom: Demos, 2005. ISBN 9781841801483
  • Co-author with Scilla Elworthy. Making Terrorism History. London: Penguin/Random House, 2006. ISBN 9781846040474
  • Co-Author with Giandomenico Picco. The Fog of Peace: How to Prevent War, Bloomsbury/I.B. Tauris, 2017. ISBN 9781780768977
  • The Psychology of Political Extremism: What would Sigmund Freud have thought about Islamic State, 2018. ISBN 9-781-78220-663-7
  • Contributor, "When Empathy Fails: Managing Radical Differences" in Encounters: The Art of Interfaith Dialogue 2018.[11]

Articles

Her contributions to journals include:

Broadcast Media

References
  1. Mark, Peter; Rifkind, Gabrielle (2016). "Establishing group psychotherapy in a student counselling service". In Lees, John; Vaspé, Alison (eds.). Clinical Counselling in Further and Higher Education. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis. pp. 87–102. ISBN 978-0-415-19281-1.(See contributors, p. ix)
  2. Rivailland, Monique (5 April 2014). "The light house - A psychotherapist who specialises in conflict resolution has transformed her London home with glass and modern art". The Times.
  3. https://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/gabrielle-rifkind
  4. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/10507450
  5. Gabrielle Rifkind; Elworthy, Scilla. "Hamas: Time to Talk". All-Party Parliamentary Group on Conflict Issues (APPGCI). Retrieved 9 December 2011.
  6. "Iran, the West, and the Region (March 11‐12, 2007)" (PDF). Princeton University. Retrieved 9 December 2011.
  7. "Across the Red Line - Is Tax a Burden". BBC 4 Today. 1 October 2020. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
  8. "Making Terrorism History". www.penguin.co.uk. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
  9. Rifkind, Gabrielle; Picco, Giandomenico (2017). The Fog of Peace: The Human Face of Conflict Resolution. Bloomsbury - I. B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-7807-6897-7.
  10. The Psychology of Political Extremism: What Would Sigmund Freud have Thought About Islamic State. London: Routledge. 2018. ISBN 9781782206637.
  11. Rosen, A; Green, N, eds. (2018). "When Empathy Fails: Managing Radical Differences". in Encounters: The Art of Interfaith Dialogue. Belgium: Brepols. ISBN 978-2-503-58032-6.
  12. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b86z4v
  13. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09m2bj1
  14. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003svr
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